"Hallowscreen"...October 29-31, Sarasota, Florida
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 8:24AM 
Announcing The Saraosta Fringe Film Festival First Annual “Hallowscreen” Film Festival Weekend, October 29-31.
This year’s Halloween weekend marks the first horror-themed event program for the two year old Sarasota Fringe Film Festival.
Nicknamed “Hallowscreen”, the Festival takes place in conjunction with the annual Sarasota Chalk Festival, in Burns Court, Sarasota. The weekend crowd is expected to be +20,000.
“Hallowscreen” runs Friday evening October 29 through Sunday afternoon October 31.
"Hallowscreen" is a FREE admission festival. FREE to all film lovers, young and old alike, but we need your support. You can help us cover our expenses by sending us a small donation! Donate what you can. Your $25 donation gets you a FREE "Hallowscreen" T shirt to wear with pride, Halloween weekend!
The Sarasota Fringe "Hallowscreen" Film Festival will screen over 100 feature and short films related to the Halloween-Horror theme, many of which are made by local filmmakers. There are also classics, and a side bar of films being presented in association with The New Orlean’s Vampire Film Festival, whose Halloween weekend program runs simultaneous to the Sarasota Hallowscreen event.
Highlight of the weekend of screenings will be an outdoor screening of the classic silent film, “Nosferatu” featuring a new, original soundtrack performed live during the movie by the Sarasota band, World Collision. World Collision, created by former Neurotica guitarist Shawn Bowen, is a unique mixture of world music with American rock sensibilities driven by tribal beats as old as time, or as old as the main character of the film they're scoring, Count Orlock.
While Nosferatu is the main event for the Hallowscreen festival, it's not the only cool event being hosted. Hallowscreen will honor a staple of the horror genre, cult star Brinke Stevens, “The Scream Queen”, with a special presentation of Sorority Babes at the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama from 1988. Brinke, a popular actress in the genre, personally picked the film as one of her favorites out of the over 100 films in which she has starred.
Sorority Babes at the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama, a favorite amongst fans as well, has been generously provided to the festival by Full Moon Features.
The Sarasota Fringe Hallowscreen Film Festival starts off with an opening night film on Friday, October 29 and runs all day Saturday, noon to midnight in our 200 seat indoor “Screaming Room”. The outdoor screening of Nosferatu, and the live performance of the score, is slated to start at 6:30 Saturday evening, in a parking lot at the corner of Burns Lane and South Pineapple. The festival continues on Sunday from noon until 4 pm when there will be an awards ceremony and the closing celebration.
Admission is FREE to the general public.
Program Director for Halloscreen is Sarasota filmmaker Lori Bowen.
For more information about Hallowscreen events please go to www.sarasotafringefilmfestival.com and www.chalkfestival.com.
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